Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers posing as friends are using phone numbers based in the UK to contact civil rights and political activists in Iran to gain access to their email and social media accounts, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has The…

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Online security experts have discovered a new Android malware that blocks outgoing calls to banks to keep customers from complaining about suspicious activity. Symantec, an American technology company, found the Android.Fakebank.B malware app in October 2013. The app replaces banking apps…

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Check Point, a cybersecurity software maker, estimates that at least 10 million Android devices have been infected by the HummingBad malware since it was seen last February. The malware generates US$300,000 a month of ad revenue for the hacking group. The…

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Sirin Labs is a smartphone maker that, in its own words, is bringing “the phone of tomorrow, today.” The company’s first device, the Solarin, is due to be launched towards the end of May and is expected to carry a price…

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Google has released one of the largest Android monthly security updates, fixing a total of 39 vulnerabilities — 15 rated critical, including four that can lead to a complete device compromise. The patches, which are included in new firmware images that…

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The devices are becoming smarter, therefore the chances to abuse them have increased. As the share of Android has become 87% in the global Smartphone market, so the Android is by far an elementary target of the mobile malware developers.The number…

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hardly two month ago we reported about the first widely spread Android Bootkit malware, dubbed as ‘Oldboot.A‘, which infected more than 500,000 Smartphone users worldwide with Android operating system in last eight months, especially in China.Oldboot is a piece of Android…

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Let’s say you want to give Firefox OS — the mobile operating system made by the same people who make the browser — a try. Until now, that’s meant one of two things: buying one of a small handful of early…

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans PacSec Google’s Chrome for Android has been popped in a single exploit that could lead to the compromise of any handset. The exploit, showcased at MobilePwn2Own at the PacSec conference in Tokyo yesterday but not disclosed in full detail, targets the…